iTunes Question Two: "Clone" Entire External Music Drive

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feynmanfeynman
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Okay so I have an external hard drive dedicated to my music. It's completely full. Rather than getting a new external drive and having two, I would prefer to just a larger one, and "clone" every file (invisible and not) to a new, much larger drive.



Does anyone know how I would do this?



Basically I want to make it seem like iTunes is accessing the same drive, only not.



I do not want to have to have all the songs in the playlists not recognize where the track is from, otherwise I will have to re import all of the songs again.



I know the playlists will remain intact as the preferences are on the main drive, but the physical music files are not.



All of the software I have looked for out there does not make an exact clone of the entire drive so any assistance in this would be much obliged!

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    feynmanfeynman Posts: 1,087member
    Anyone?
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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    You don't need to clone it but to do that you'd use Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper - for a non-system disk, Disk Utility's restore should do the trick too.



    Copying a folder takes invisible files with it anyway. All you really need to do is copy the music over and then simply go to itunes preferences > advanced and change the location of the music sources. If your itunes library is on the external, after copying it, you should select it by holding the alt-key while launching itunes.
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